Popular baby names in Alabama, 1935

The most popular baby names in Alabama in 1935 were Mary for girls (2,213 babies) and James for boys (2,290). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 56,768 babies born in Alabama in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alabama in 1935

Names given at least 15 times in Alabama that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Voncile: 15 babies, 19.9× the national rate
Willodean: 20 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Odell: 23 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Inell: 18 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Rosia: 15 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Callie: 40 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Charlie: 22 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Adell: 17 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Jimmie: 92 babies, 6× the national rate
Pearlie: 51 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Boys

Oneal: 15 babies, 9× the national rate
Rayford: 20 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Willie: 972 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Winston: 27 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Roosevelt: 112 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Arther: 17 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Hollis: 27 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Hoyt: 18 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Fletcher: 15 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Earnest: 109 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alabama, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Mary	2,213	–	1
2	Betty	1,419	–	4
3	Annie	784	↑1	38
4	Dorothy	768	↓1	6
5	Shirley	718	↑17	2
6	Barbara	573	↓1	3
7	Martha	469	↓1	24
8	Doris	402	↓1	13
9	Margaret	368	↓1	8
10	Willie	362	↓1	99
11	Ruby	359	↓1	41
12	Sarah	338	–	61
13	Helen	324	↓2	10
14	Frances	309	↓1	19
15	Peggy	285	↓1	36
16	Joyce	274	↑1	12
17	Elizabeth	266	↑1	17
18	Mildred	261	↓3	35
19	Louise	252	–	45
20	Virginia	247	–	16
21	Mattie	235	↓5	>100
22	Carolyn	231	↑1	28
23	Bobbie	222	↑4	>100
24	Lillie	216	↑2	>100
25	Evelyn	202	↑4	31
26	Edna	199	↓5	67
27	Ruth	198	↓3	15
28	Patricia	197	↑11	5
29	Alice	185	↑2	25
30	Clara	167	↑17	81
31	Nellie	164	↑1	>100
32	Minnie	163	↓4	>100
33	Ethel	162	↑2	82
34	Sara	160	↓4	>100
35	Bernice	155	↑1	90
36	Carrie	154	↑9	>100
37	Emma	153	↓12	89
38	Gladys	150	↓4	78
39	Jo	149	new	73
40	Juanita	147	↑3	72
41	Jean	145	↓4	18
42	Catherine	144	–	42
43	Ann	143	↓2	30
44	Bessie	140	↑5	>100
45	Bertha	138	↑5	>100
46	Lois	136	↓6	21
47	Ella	133	↑1	>100
48	Billie	132	↓15	>100
49	Gloria	131	new	32
50	Hazel	126	↓6	92

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	James	2,290	–	2
2	William	1,225	–	4
3	John	1,182	–	3
4	Robert	1,113	–	1
5	Charles	1,027	–	6
6	Willie	972	–	30
7	Billy	775	–	19
8	Bobby	505	–	24
9	George	467	–	8
10	Thomas	454	–	9
11	Joe	442	–	25
12	Donald	355	–	7
13	Henry	330	–	27
14	David	303	–	11
15	Edward	300	–	13
16	Walter	270	↑1	23
17	Jimmy	259	↑6	47
18	Joseph	256	↓2	10
19	Jerry	253	↑6	22
20	Frank	246	↓1	16
21	Jack	229	–	18
22	Richard	227	↓2	5
23	Roy	222	↑3	40
24	Harold	211	↓6	20
25	Jimmie	198	↓1	69
26	Eddie	196	↑1	87
27	Paul	189	↑5	14
28	Charlie	186	↑2	100
29	Arthur	185	↑4	29
30	Kenneth	179	↑8	15
31	Clarence	177	↓3	48
32	Fred	175	↓3	34
33	Howard	174	↓2	39
34	Samuel	170	↑2	62
35	Albert	166	↓1	31
36	Eugene	163	↓1	26
37	Johnny	161	↑2	74
38	Johnnie	155	↑2	>100
39	Raymond	142	↑3	17
40	Carl	139	↑1	28
41	Franklin	135	↓19	71
42	Jessie	135	↑2	>100
43	Ralph	123	↓6	32
44	Jesse	116	new	>100
45	Curtis	112	↑3	>100
46	Roosevelt	112	↓3	>100
47	Earnest	109	new	>100
48	Ernest	109	↓3	55
49	Leon	108	↓3	86
50	Andrew	106	new	85

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